Is it possible to take out the drive or slots that a game system uses to play games and replace them with another type of device. Such as taking out the cd drive for a neo-geo cd and putting in a mini disk drive insted? could it actually work? that would be one awesome portable. I need help!
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slerch666
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More than likely you would have to reprogram the BIOS and change how games try to load and likely loads of other shit.
Long story short, yeah, you could probably replace them with another device, but you'd never actually be able to USE it. It'd basically be a system with a mini disc attahced to it that does... NOTHING.
Long story short, yeah, you could probably replace them with another device, but you'd never actually be able to USE it. It'd basically be a system with a mini disc attahced to it that does... NOTHING.
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Originally posted by zorro:
<strong>can you record anything besides audio with a mini-disk player? has anyone here tried images?</strong><hr></blockquote>
With some additional cables and software you can store data on them as well. But honestly, if you didn't know that, I doubt you'll be able to create a portable neo with it. No offence, but I can't even imagine how hard that would be.
But it WOULD be very nice though
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Well, we've all thought about replacing the NGCD CD drive with a faster one in order to shorten the loading times... But definately it would be very difficult as it would involve a lot of modding.
I think replacing the CD drive would depend on wehter SNK used the ATAPI interface for the drive. The only problem beyond that would be getting the embedded system to read the mini-disk format. So you would have to hack the BIOS to get it to read the mini-disk format. So unless you are a really good assembly programmer no go.
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First question: How portable do you want your NeoCD to be? Do you want it portable or luggable?
The NeoCD consoles themselves are way too big to attempt either of those considering that I'm pretty sure the main circuit board is way too big to cram into a portable case. The CD drive is the least of your worries in terms of size.
It would be much easier to look into making a "luggable" NeoCD. First step would be to make sure you've got a suitable battery pack.
Next step would be to see if you can connect some type of LCD display to the NeoCD, maybe even two. Because then you can make custom controllers with the LCD display built in them. (Think of a NeoPocketColour/Gameboy with a cable that connects to the NeoCD.)
Then shove the NeoCD, battery pack in a backpack and lug it around. Of course the NeoCD isn't made for portable play so you probably wouldn't be able to walk around with it.
Hmm... You could also do this with an aes, mvs, etc.
Another project would be to attach a mini CD to an existing portable, create a cart that will load stuff from the CD's. (Easiest step would be to have it load a "Rom". Harder would be to make something like a SystemCard like the once used for the TurboGrafx and write your own game software.
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The NeoCD consoles themselves are way too big to attempt either of those considering that I'm pretty sure the main circuit board is way too big to cram into a portable case. The CD drive is the least of your worries in terms of size.
It would be much easier to look into making a "luggable" NeoCD. First step would be to make sure you've got a suitable battery pack.
Next step would be to see if you can connect some type of LCD display to the NeoCD, maybe even two. Because then you can make custom controllers with the LCD display built in them. (Think of a NeoPocketColour/Gameboy with a cable that connects to the NeoCD.)
Then shove the NeoCD, battery pack in a backpack and lug it around. Of course the NeoCD isn't made for portable play so you probably wouldn't be able to walk around with it.
Hmm... You could also do this with an aes, mvs, etc.
Another project would be to attach a mini CD to an existing portable, create a cart that will load stuff from the CD's. (Easiest step would be to have it load a "Rom". Harder would be to make something like a SystemCard like the once used for the TurboGrafx and write your own game software.
)basically the ideal of the project is to make a portable about the size of a nomad, maybe a lillte bigger. I want it to have the screen built-in and I want it to be a self-contained unit. No keyboards on it, but just 4 buttons and a contol pad. I want it to start up directly to the porgram to play the games(emu I guess..) and have them load directly from there. I've heard I can have win start up the program automatically.
he has helped me on past projects and is good with electronicsOriginally posted by leGionellz:
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With some additional cables and software you can store data on them as well. But honestly, if you didn't know that, I doubt you'll be able to create a portable neo with it. No offence, but I can't even imagine how hard that would be.
But it WOULD be very nice though
I need to know more about this. Because I searched the net and there was nothing that said you could store normal files on one unless it was a md data disk on a md data player. I need some help then
mini discs arent an optical medium in the same way cd's and dvds are. They use a magneto optical technology and im not even sure if you can find a "mini disc drive". Yes there is a mini disc data storage medium used in a very unsucessful sony camcorder. But you would probably be better of using those new mini cd's that they sell now and just modify a regualr cd-rom drive to be smaller.
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You could use the small format cd's like jap singles? nost of the neo cd games arent oo big, otherwise you're going to have too write a partioning system for minidisk and then make it compatible with a neo cd!! haahahahaaah ahem sorry good luck!